Many people on lemmy.ml deeply respect and admire authoritarian governments and organizations.
Iran, China, North Korea, Soviet Union…
The West has many flaws. But our flaws are nothing compared to these guys.
Iran hangs homosexuals. Iran shot 30,000 people in less than than 2 weeks. The Soviet Union had to build a fucking Iron wall to prevent people from escaping. The Soviets lied about the Chernobyl nuclear explosion. China censors the internet. China wants to eliminate Islam. North Korea is a totalitarian hellscape. Watching anime is a crime.
Why is lemmy.ml so fascinated with authoritarians?
Russia is capitalist right now, as are social democracies. Either way, you’re missing 3 critical problems:
Social Democracies have private ownership as the principal aspect, not public ownership like in China. Both have private and public ownership, but private has power in social democracies and public in China.
The class character of the state in social democracies is capitlaist, while the class character of the state in China is proletarian.
Social democracies in the west depend on imperialism to subsidize their safety nets, China’s safety nets come from its own production and trade.
The nordics are not socialist in any capacity, nor are they nearer to it than existing socialist countries like China.